The 4400

The pilot begins with a ball of light sailing towards Earth, but rather than the expected catastrophic event, thousands of returned abductees are left with no memory of their otherworldly experiences. Each has been gone anywhere from a few months to several decades, but hasn't aged a day. These are the stories of the 4400 abductees after they are returned to Earth. The show follows two NSA agents who are trying to figure out what happened and why. Some of those returned have been affected in mysterious ways with certain abilities, both good and bad.

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1Pilot

1946. Young Maia Rutledge sees a bright light and then disappears from the face of the Earth. She's the first in a long string of disappearances going on for years. 2004. A comet is on a collision course with earth. Suddenly it stops and leaves 4400 people behind. All had disappeared and haven't changed a bit from the moment no one ever saw them again. While agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris have the task to investigate what happened, some of The 4400 are behaving strangely and seemingly possess extraordinary powers.

2The New and Improved Carl Morrissey

One of the 4400 is suspected to be a serial killer. Jordan Collier steps into the public as a 'face' to represent and organize the 4400. Danny informs Tom half-heartedly of Shawn's violent incident. Ryland tries to stop Barbara Yates from whitch-hunting thw 4400 and Maia's babysitter does not like to know the future.

3Becoming

One of the 4400 is suspected to be a serial killer. Jordan Collier steps into the public as a 'face' to represent and organize the 4400. Danny informs Tom half-heartedly of Shawn's violent incident. Ryland tries to stop Barbara Yates from whitch-hunting thw 4400 and Maia's babysitter does not like to know the future.

4Trial by Fire

A list with all the names of The 4400 and their current location has leaked out. The department of Homeland Security tries its best to stop the list from getting dispersed, but the damage is already done. A bomb is placed in the house of Richard and Lily and that's not the only one. All returnees are in danger and agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris must find out who is behind the attacks. Self-proclaimed 4400's spokesman Jordan Collier has his own solution. He invites all of The 4400 to move to his housing complex, protected and closed off from the rest of the world. Meanwhile Baldwin's son seems to have quite a lot of trouble adjusting after he awakened from his coma. Dennis Ryland, Homeland Security director, has his own problem. Agent Warren Lytell comes over from Washington and he's got permission to practically take over the investigation of The 4400.

5White Light

Agent Warren Lytell draws his own plan for the investigation into The 4400. He snatches Tom Baldwin's son Kyle from the hospital for interrogation about the disappearance of Shawn. He also starts interrogating Maia at the daycare center. With the help of Marco from the Theory Room, Baldwin and Diana Skouris find out where Lytell has hidden Kyle. Just when they are makings plan to pick him up, Maia has a premonition about Kyle being the answer to everything. Meanwhile the relationship between Shawn and Nikki is getting more complicated by the day and Lily and Richard get suspicious about the major interest Jordan Collier is having in the baby.

1Wake-Up Call

Kyle tries to visit his cousin Shawn at The 4400 Center but is thrown out. Richard and Lily are desperate to protect their infant daughter, Isabelle from Collier and other maniacs, and a schizophrenic 4400 wants a huge communicative device and makes it a hospital's project from a minor position.

2Voices Carry

A baseball player is overwhelmed by a special 4400 ability. Collier is involved with a weapons' dealer. To Maia's delight Diana's sister visits them. Richard and Lily seek shelter at a motel where Isabelle takes some surprising initiatives.

3Weight of the World

A salesman's saliva has an extremely slimming effect on people. Lily suspects a new pregnancy as Richard stumbles onto a case of jealousy. So does Collier, and Shawn is disgusted by his moral. Kyle is tempted to join a wild students' party. Maia finds her aunt's work very interesting.

4Suffer the Children

26 Jun 2005

5As Fate Would Have It

10 Jul 2005

6Life Interrupted

17 Jul 2005

7Carrier

After living for 8 years in an alternate world that only Tom and Alana remember the world with the 4400 has returned as it was at the second the 8 years started. A 30 year old 4400 woman wakes up and finds everybody else in her local community dead. Maia puts April's love for her to a test.

8Rebirth

31 Jul 2005

9Hidden

07 Aug 2005

10Lockdown

On John Colliers'? birthday NTAC receives threatening e-mails and gets attacked by terror. Kyle is concerned that an innocent will be convicted for killing Collier. Maia gets a mysterious infection and is treated at NTAC. Isabelle has broken off her special communication with her mother and transfers it to her father. At school a girl is very interested in Kyle.

11The Fifth Page

21 Aug 2005

12Mommy's Bosses

7 of the 4400 have died and Maia gets worse all the time Out of suspicion and despair Diana threatens Dr. Hudson with a gun. Lily has run away with Isabelle and Richard pleads he to come back. Marsdem seems unable to avoid a long prison term which makes Alison contact Kyle.

1The New World

In a broadcast, the Nova Group promises the world a demonstration of their power on October 19. Tom and Diana apprehend Gary, but he refuses to give any information about October 19. Meanwhile, it's learned that Shawn has been funding the Nova Group for months, unaware of their murderous intent. Meanwhile, Shawn helps Isabelle deal with the guilt of her mother's impending death. Lily dies peacefully.

2Being Tom Baldwin

It seems that earlier that morning Tom entered an NTAC interrogation room and shot TJ Kim. In the end, Boyd Gelder is apprehended and Tom is able to clear his name. Meanwhile, Richard undertakes a journey to release Lily's ashes, and Diana discovers that Kevin Burkhoff, who has been injecting himself with doses of promicin, has developed a 4400 ability. Burkhoff can, sometimes, heal his body. In the closing scene we see Isabelle and Shawn kissing.

3Gone: Part 1

25 Jun 2006

4Gone: Part 2

02 Jul 2006

5Graduation Day

09 Jul 2006

6The Home Front

Tom, Diana and a squad of NTAC agents race to the house where they believe the last member of the terrorist Nova Group, Gary Navarro, is hiding out. But when they get there, Tom and Diana find that Gary left just moments before they arrived. Someone must have tipped him off.Meanwhile, agents from the National Security Agency bring Alana in for questioning. They believe she might have ties to the Nova Group. Back at NTAC, Tom is furious that Alana is being detained. Nina Jarvis explains that Haspelcorp, a company in the private sector, was contracted by the NSA to find any remaining individuals involved with the Nova Group.Alana is on their list. And Dennis Ryland is leading the company's investigation.NTAC soon discovers that the call that tipped off Gary Navarro came from Heather Tobey's office at the 4400 Center. But Heather was teaching a class at the time of the call. Later that night, Heather comes to see Tom and reveals that Alana was the only other person who had access to her office. Tom keeps the information to himself.When Alana is eventually released, Tom confronts her. Alana admits to placing the call but she had her reasons. Alana understands that the things Gary did were wrong, but she believes he was only trying to protect the 4400. Besides, Gary turned his back on the Nova Group after they assassinated TJ Kim. Tom feels betrayed but can't bring himself to turn Alana in.At the 4400 Center, the NSA arrests Heather for tipping off Gary. Even if she didn't make the call, the NSA is willing to hold Heather until they find the true culprit. Unwilling to let Heather pay for her crime, Alana turns herself in.Despite what she did, Tom still loves Alana and can't bear to think of her rotting in a jail cell. He goes to Ryland and they strike a deal. Ryland will release Alana in exchange for Gary Navarro. Tom and Diana eventually catch Gary. But as they make the prisoner transfer, Tom has a change of heart about turning Gary over and double-crosses Ryland.Tom escapes with Alana and Gary, but now they are both fugitives. In the end, Tom is forced to say goodbye to Alana and she goes on the run with Gary.Meanwhile, Nikki unexpectedly comes back into Shawn's life. But when it becomes evident that Isabelle's jealously could lead to something terrible, Shawn is forced to push Nikki away.

7Blink

23 Jul 2006

8The Ballad of Kevin and Tess

A monstrous Kevin Burkoff runs through a park being pursued by agents from Haspelcorp. Kevin's face and body are withered from his Promicin experiments.The agents catch Kevin and take him to a warehouse to be interrogated. They question him about his research but are primarily concerned with whether or not he's been injecting anyone else with Promicin. Kevin swears that he's been working alone and only injected himself.Satisfied that he is telling the truth, one of the agents pulls out a gun and shoots Kevin. But Kevin is able to use his regenerative abilities to heal himself and escape.Back at NTAC, Diana's concerned because Kevin's missing. In order to find him, Diana is forced to reveal to Tom and NTAC that she's been helping Kevin with his Promicin experiment. Tom and Diana go to see Tess Doerner, a 4400 who was a patient with Kevin at Abendson Psychiatric Hospital.Tess has made a nice life for herself since she was discharged from the hospital. But she claims she has not seen Kevin.That night, Diana is in bed when she suddenly wakes up and goes to the front door. Tess is there. We learn that for some time Tess has been using her ability to bring Diana to Kevin so that he could give her injections of Promicin.Kevin regrets doing all this without Diana's consent, but feels it's necessary for the sake of his experiment. Tom and NTAC eventually discover what Kevin is doing and are able to extract the Promicin from Diana's system before it's too late. However Kevin and Tess escape. And Kevin is able to shed his monstrous skin and come out looking like new.Meanwhile, Shawn befriends a rock legend, Nick Crowley, after saving the musician from an overdose. Shawn, a long time Crowley fan, is excited to be invited into Nick's world. But when Nick uses Shawn's ability as an excuse to keep living a hard lifestyle, Shawn is forced to turn his back on the rock legend.At the 4400 Center, Richard goes to Heather Tobey for help honing his telekinetic ability. And Isabelle, unbeknownst to anyone else, is revealed to be supplying Haspelcorp with a stock pile of Promicin.

9The Starzl Mutation

06 Aug 2006

10The Gospel According to Collier

Shawn greets members of the general public who have come to see him and Isabelle get married when a voice calls to him from the crowd: It's Jordan Collier. And he looks much different from when Shawn last saw him -- now with long hair and a full beard. Jordan asks Shawn in a bewildered manner: "Do you know who I am?" But Jordan quickly runs away before Shawn or Tom can catch him. NTAC is called to the scene. But an extensive search of the area doesn't turn up any sign of Jordan.Although it's his wedding day, Shawn insists on tagging along with Tom and Diana to look for Collier. Shawn goes to see Isabelle and tells her that he just wants to postpone the wedding until Jordan is found. Isabelle tries to argue, but Shawn explains that if she really wants to avoid all the bad things she was sent back to do, finding Jordan could be the key. Isabelle concedes and the wedding is postponed. Meanwhile, Tom goes to see his son, Kyle, in prison. He tells Kyle that Jordan Collier is alive. And if NTAC can find Jordan, it will prove that Kyle didn't kill anyone.Tom, Diana and Shawn soon discover an abandoned house where Collier has been living. They also find a journal. Back at NTAC, Marco analyzes the journal and says the writing matches Jordan's. But it's the content that's truly amazing. The journal talks about the future. It's says that there is only one city left, and that the rest of the earth is a wasteland. And there is a phrase repeated over and over again: "The war for the future will be fought in the past."Tom and Diana's investigation eventually leads them to an encampment of homeless people. It seems that they know Jordan Collier as "the preacher." One of the homeless, Will, explains that he didn't know "the preacher" was Jordan Collier, but whoever he is, the preacher or Jordan, the guy claims to have been to the future and has many followers. He then leads Tom, Diana, and Shawn to a nearby underpass where they find a graffiti mosaic of Collier. Back at NTAC, Marco shows Tom and Diana photos of similar mosaics from all over the country. Collier may not remember who he is, but he's returned with a purpose.Back in prison, Kyle has a visitor: it's Jordan Collier. NTAC is called to the scene. Tom and Diana interrogate Jordan. Jordan can't remember his identity but thought he looked a lot like this Jordan Collier person. He saw Kyle's picture in an article about the assassination and hoped he might have some answers. Jordan still isn't sure who he is, but tells Diana and Tom that he has been alive for hundreds maybe thousands of years and has seen the decline of humanity and the earth turn into a wasteland. Tom and Diana conclude that Jordan has been to the future but none of things he saw have happened yet.But for Tom, the most important thing is for Jordan to regain his memory so he can get his son, Kyle, out of prison. Tom goes to Jarvis and says that Alana could use her ability to help Jordan get back his memory. But he can't bring her in because she is still a fugitive. They strike a deal. The charges against Alana will be dropped if she can recover Jordan's memory and make her ability available to NTAC on a permanent basis.Alana uses her ability and Jordan gets back his memory. Now fully aware of who he is, Jordan claims that he knows why the 4400 were sent back and what they have to do. Tom urges NTAC to release Jordan so he can get Kyle out of jail, but Jarvis explains that the government does not want to publicize Jordan Collier's return until they know more about where he's been. Desperate to get his son out of prison, Tom secretly gets pictures of Jordan at NTAC through Shawn to the press. The breaking news causes a large turn out of protestors who demand Jordan's release. NTAC eventually gives in. Jordan then helps Tom to get the charges against Kyle dropped and he is released from prison.Later, at the 4400 Center, Jordan confronts Isabelle. Isabelle confesses to Collier that she hopes he can help her avoid the bad things she was sent to do. But Jordan explains that Isabelle cannot fight what she is: the enemy of the 4400 and all that is good. He then tells her to leave the Center and never return. Enraged, Isabelle threatens to kill Jordan. He tells her she is welcome to try. Isabelle backs down and leaves the center.Meanwhile, April, Diana's sister, makes a surprise visit. She brings her new boyfriend, Ben, to meet Diana. But Maia soon reveals to her mother that Diana is the one who is supposed to marry Ben, not April. Diana is forced to reveal Maia's prediction to Ben and says that they have to stay away from each other for April's sake. But Maia's prediction makes Ben rethink his relationship with Diana's sister, and he breaks up with April. April immediately goes to Diana and asks if she knows why Ben dumped her, but Diana can't bring herself to reveal the truth. However, Diana soon discovers that she does have feelings for Ben and the two start a relationship behind April's back.

11Terrible Swift Sword

20 Aug 2006

12Fifty-Fifty

27 Aug 2006

1The Wrath of Graham

A high school kid named Graham develops an ability which makes people worship him to the point of sacrificing their lives for him. Tom visits Isabelle in jail, hoping to get information on the whereabouts of Alana who's been missing for months. Marco calls Diana to let her know that her sister April has promicin and is nowhere to be found. NTAC gets a new director. Kyle meets a young woman named Cassie who has some advice about how to get Shawn out of his coma. Jordan shows up to deal with the high school kid.

3Audrey Parker's Come and Gone

After taking promicin, an old lady named Audrey Parker develops the ability to astral project from her body. When she's murdered, her spirit tries to reach Tom and Diana to help them find her killer. Shawn decides to re-open the 4400 center and start healing again despite the government's warnings. Ben and Maia come to Seattle to visit Diana. Cassie leads Kyle to some interesting information.

4The Truth and Nothing But the Truth

Diana catches her sister April, who has survived a promicine shot and gained an ability the full potential of which she fails to grasp - to make anyone answer truthfully to any question posed by her. She has teamed up with a man she loves and they are blackmailing people who have dirty secrets. But then they bite more than they can chew and April's beloved gets murdered. The only way to get the people responsible to answer for their crimes would be for April to turn herself into NTAC custody and lose her precious freedom... Meanwhile, Shawn decides to run for the mayor's office and Isabelle helps Kyle translate the coded section of the White Light book - which results in a shocking revelation.

5Try the Pie

Now that he knows Kyle is Promicin Positive ("P+"), Tom sets out to track him down. His journey leads him to a town that is no longer on the map and the people of which are not ordinary. Meanwhile, Maia has terrible visions of 4400s and P+es being dragged to prison camps. And her visions always come true.

6The Marked

The NTAC nerd squad bring to their Director's attention a 4400, Curtis Peck, who was a shoestring budget film maker and continues to be one, except that his 4400 ability seems to be to receive script pieces that combine to tell the true, complete answers to haunting questions, like "What happened to Jimmy Hoffa?" and "Who shot JFK?". And now he's missing and he left a video message where he told that Jordan Collier is not the real threat - there is something far more dangerous, and now they are after him. Peck's producer shows a trailer of the film Peck was supposed to start making, "The Marked", to Tom and Diana, and it paints a new, frightful picture: In the future the 4400 are supposed to prevent, exists a group of powerful individuals who like their time just the way it is and have irrevocably replaced the minds of ten important persons of the present time with the minds of their agents. Peck calls them "The Marked" because each one supposedly has an X-shaped mark behind their left ear because of the mind-replacing procedure. So far, Peck has received only one name. When Tom and Diana start investigating, Peck's unbelievable conspiracy theory starts to gain credibility... Meanwhile, Shawn meets Collier and tells him that he can't join Collier's cause because he needs to focus on his politic opponent, Gabriel Hewitt. Soon after that, Hewitt suffers a stroke. A coincidence?

7Till We Have Built Jerusalem

Shawn gets bad publicity when he ends up having sex with the daughter of a woman whom he cured and it turns out to be a trap when the girl tells the media her story. Maia paints a vision that at first doesn't make sense, but then the nerds at NTAC match it to the most polluted - and more crucially, abandoned - part of Seattle, making it the perfect hiding place for Collier, his 4400s and P+es. Tom and Diana try to investigate, but find out that Collier has set an uncrossable perimeter around his "Promise City". When Collier starts broadcasting live footage of a P+ turning the poisoned water perfectly clean and declares his peaceful intentions but also states that they are not to be interfered, the government sends in a squad of super soldiers to take him down.